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Just putting this out - from Truth Hammer, reposting Praying Medic:

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TruthHammer
Forwarded from
Praying Medic
(Dave Hayes)

Why Do They Push Fantastic Claims?

Certain accounts on social media share unbelievable claims with their followers. There appears to be a single overarching reason why they do it.

These accounts often post legitimate news and information on current events for a period of time. But then, they’ll suddenly share something out of the norm, like the idea that Hitler wasn’t really such a bad guy, or that James Comey or Hillary Clinton have been secretly executed.

Analyzing the Claims

If I were to tell you the moon was made of cheese, you may not believe me. But I could respond, “Prove that it isn’t made of cheese.” To prove conclusively that the moon is not made of cheese, we would have to go there in person, and inspect the surface of the moon. That isn’t possible, thus, my claim cannot be verified as true but neither can it be proven false.

The fantastic claims made by certain social media accounts use this same tactic. Someone will say that a political figure has been secretly executed. When anyone asks for evidence, they’re told to prove that it didn’t happen. If a recent photo were provided showing that the person is still alive, the next step is to claim that wasn’t them, but a clone, or someone wearing a mask. These claims are designed in such a way that they can neither be verified nor falsified.

The motive for such claims can been seen in the fact that these accounts generally post reliable information for a whil,e and then suddenly change and post things of a different nature.

They post legitimate, reliable information to gain followers. Once they have their base of support established, they begin posting occasional bizarre claims along with legitimate information, hoping that everything will be accepted, since their followers already trust them.

The goal of these accounts is to get their followers to spread the lies alongside the truth.

Think about logically.
We’re engaged in an information war.
We’re digital soldiers.
Our task is sharing the truth with the world.
Would our enemy not want to discredit us as a source of information?
How will friends, co-workers, and family react when along with the truth about election fraud we tell them the cabal was secretly executed and all those people walking around in DC are fakers wearing masks.
Everything we say is now discredited because we shared one false story.
See how that works?


2,301 posted on 08/03/2021 1:58:30 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Nothing is more important than Truth)
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To: little jeremiah
We all must keep Laplace's principle in mind:

"the weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness” or

as Carl Sagan put it:

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

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2,310 posted on 08/03/2021 2:19:56 PM PDT by infool7 (When you have the Lord, nothing else is important and everything is fascinating! )
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